Community Media (P4025)

30 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

This module will develop your understanding of questions and critiques of community and belonging. You'll explore these ideas in opposition to media online and offline. 

This module uses action research to explore how media content, process, and form relate to audience and institutional communities in new, process-driven ways.

You’ll combine theory and practice to understand how community media can collaborate with activists, charities, communities, and NGOs to:

  • build and sustain connections
  • reflect on shared experiences
  • critique and challenge issues within communities locally, regionally, and across borders.

You’ll also develop and apply journalistic skills in this context, focusing on media’s potential to support and engage with diverse communities.

Teaching

50%: Lecture
50%: Seminar

Assessment

100%: Coursework (Essay, Project)

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 30 hours of contact time and about 270 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.